Re: [HID] Fix hiddev devfs oops

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 10:49:14PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> There is a long-standing devfs_unregister oops in hid/hiddev.  It's
> caused by hid calling hiddev_exit before unregistering itself which
> in turn calls hiddev_disconnect.
> 
> hiddev_exit removes the directory which contains the hiddev devices.
> Therefore it needs to be called after the hiddev devices have been
> disconnected.
> 
> This patch fixes that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Marcelo, the same fix is needed in 2.4 as well.

Herbert,

Would be nice to have a version which applies to 2.4 also.
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